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The Museum’s Collections document the fate of Holocaust victims, survivors, rescuers, liberators, and others through artifacts, documents, photos, films, books, personal stories, and more. Search below to view digital records and find material that you can access at our library and at the Shapell Center.

Videotape testimony of Regina N., who was born in Myszyniec, Poland in 1920. She recounts her father's death when she was a baby; antisemitic violence; participating in Zionist youth groups; child care work in Warsaw, then Płock; German invasion; her mother's death from cancer; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; deportation to Działdowo; escaping upon arrival; traveling to Starachowice; ghettoization; marriage; transfer to Starachowice camp; slave labor in a munitions factory; pregnancy and childbirth (the child was taken after three days); a failed escape attempt by the camp resistance; transfer to Birkenau; public hanging of an escapee; encountering her husband; a death march in January 1945, then train transport to Bergen-Belsen; sharing extra food; liberation by British troops; living in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; reunion with her husband; moving to Regensburg; living in Brussels; her son's birth; emigrating to Israel; moving to the United States in 1957; and her daughter's birth. Ms. N. shows photographs.

Author/Creator

N., Regina, 1920-

Published

New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1991-1992

Learn about over 1,000 camps and ghettos in Volume I and II of this encyclopedia, which are available as a free PDF download. This reference provides text, photographs, charts, maps, and extensive indexes.